well....thank you! i know u knew that 8th was my b'day and wanted to wish me....i appreciate it! i was 23 last year. somehow never liked that number...so it was a relief to get away from it now....happily, i'm back to 21. yes. from now on, every year i am 21 going on 21.
so it was a nice weekend. what with saturday being my b'day. friday mom organized a dinner at home, and munni mausi n family were invited. it was a nice party, and i got to cut a dee-lishus cake, which is when people realised it was actually a bday party! then at around 1230 shek and dipu came over. they reached delhi earlier that night, and were eager to meet me. they had got a box of brownies from theobroma as a budday gift from mohini, which i shared with everyone. my whole family now blesses that girl and worships the bakery. hung out with the dudes for a while, roaming around looking for someplace still open...till we found the bristol. slept around 2....
saturday was a blur...what started as a quiet morning receiving a couple phone calls quickly degenerated by the actual early rising of shek n dipu. they came over even before i had a chance to get ready....then the chaos began. from home to vasant kunj (shek had work there) to priya complex, all in a cramped position in the alto. priya itself was an unsightly mess....about as clean as the underside of a fly. dipu got a haircut there (the barber had to be tipped for finding the hair). bumped into balaji and PVP. shef joined us there, and we lunched at punjabi by nature. from there, shef n shek dumped us for wedding shopping....so, in one of those rare instances, we took an auto to select citywalk, where we hung out and watched a movie till we were picked up by the daffy duo around 7ish. not tired of waltzing around the city, we then went to def col through all the traffic for dinner at sagar. i called the family over there for dinner too, so after the others left, we ate at swagath and had a beer. the night was wrapped up with a coffee at the mega mall ccd. slept around 0130...
sunday was the high point of the weekend. after a frustrating morning waking early and fuming while the others dawdled, we got on way with our road trip to moradabad for sho's wedding....it was a nice drive for most of the way....the roads were empty, the car was very comfortable, and the company was of course good. we amused ourselves by picking on dips...2 halts and some juvenile behaviour in a park later, we reached the hotel....it was an oasis in a desert!
we quickly made ourselves comfortable in the rooms....chilled, had a poolside lunch, and napped for a while.
here, i would like to digress. this paragraph is about my friend. i don't want to take names so let's call him abhishek. well, this guy is 5'10". he was a regular athelete. recently, he's started taking on an aerodynamic shape, not unlike the innova we came in. that day i finally saw how it happened. he had 2 breakfasts. one consisted of some sandwiches, parathas and toast. the second was more about idlis, parathas and wadas. both were extremely heavy. he also had lunch. more than any of us. and soup with it. and ice cream. he also had several starters at the wedding. and drinks. and chaats. and juice. and dinner. and desserts. halfway through this food orgy, i started feeling incredulous. by the end, all i could feel was a wave of sympathy for potts, his fiancee.
back to the story. we woke much later than we had planned....so quickly got ready (took only 1 hour!), played a little pool and went for the baraat...during which the dancing promptly undid the painstaking efforts of looking good. it was all very well organized. the only thing the organizers overlooked was the slightly unbecoming behavior on part of the unnamed friend, who was acting more like he was in a club and had bumped into sho after 6 months....it was mildly amusing and strongly embarassing
came back on monday....with a beautiful drive through thick fog, a pleasant halt at a dhaba for steaming, buttery parathas (i will not tell you what else was steaming there when i went to relieve myself), and a 2 hour journey within delhi....still waitin for the pics dipu!!!
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